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Test launch of the OQ-19 target aircraft in the United States

Men unload and place OQ-19 target aircraft from a truck. The truck drives away. Sergeants fit a parachute in the aircraft. A man fixing JATO bottle to launcher with A7-type catapult. Men starting the target engine using a gasoline engine starter. Man adjusts the carburetor setting manually. Fixing starting device to aircraft. The OQ-19 target aircraft on launcher. The OQ-19 target aircraft launches and in flight. Men watching the officer fly aircraft using a hand control (B type radio command guidance system). OQ-19 target aircraft falling by means of parachute after the aircraft’s engine is cut off. The OQ-19 target aircraft and parachute lands on the ground.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079931
VB-13 Tarzon missile preparation.

Men prepare a VB-13 Tarzon missile (also known as ASM-A-1 Tarzon), a freefall vertical guided bomb. The missile contains a British Tallboy 12,000-pound (5,400 kg) bomb.

Date: 1949
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079932
Test launch of the Model 601 and Model 602 missiles in the United States

Men stand at the entrance of the Boeing GAPA project building at the Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. A small high-velocity rocket is fired prior to launching. Launching of the Model 601 missile. Streak of smoke arises from the missile in the blue sky. Men using theodolite to track the rocket. A radar dish rotating while tracking rocket. Rocket smoke trail forming an arc-shape. The 602 Model missile launches from launchpad.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079933
Acid fueled rocket fails to launch.

A Jeep or hauls a 13 foot rocket to launch tower. Men putting the rocket into place in launcher. The smoke flare signal rises on top of the control house. The rocket and its flame from exhaust is seen from its vertical tower launch pad. The acid fueled rocket misfires and fails to launch.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079934
The third Matador MX-771 missile launching in the United States

Men prepare to launch the Martin Matador MX-771 missile, a surface-to-surface guided missile. Civilian and military spectators, Captain McGovern stand beside a control truck. The third Martin Matador MX-771 missile before launching. A red smoke emits as a flare on signal truck. A man signaling. The Matador MX-771 missile firing as JATO bottle drops off from the missile after its launch.

Date: 1949
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079935
Textile workers on strike attend meeting, receive supplies in Georgia with Union support.

Textile workers go on strike in Georgia, United States. Textile workers (possibly from Celanese Corporation in Rome, Georgia) carrying placards outside a factory. Smokestacks are seen in the background. Placards say 'Textile Workers on Strike' and 'Give us real Senority'. Textile workers on strike stand near factory fence. A worker lights his cigarette. Strike committee made up of union members and representatives from the locality and national union convene for a meeting. An African American worker speaks with the strike committee. A man takes the minutes of the meeting. A telegraph is sent through Western Union. Telephone operator transfers a call. Close up views of men and women talking on telephones. Publicity department gets the details from a typewriter. A woman mails a pamphlet “This is your fight”. A man signs a Textile Workers Union of America check made out to the Northwest Georgia Joint Board, TWUA. Man signs an official paper of 'Textile Worker Union of America'. Workers on strike line up outside the TWUA Local 689 commissary. The union commissary replenishes their stocks of food and supplies for the workers to carry them through the time without pay. Workers receive their supplies and food. A man leads the union workers to sing "We shall overcome." The worker takes his supply to his car. Interior of a house, a woman (mother, housewife) gives a glass of milk to a boy, man seated on chair in living room reading newspaper and his family with boy on sofa, and wife joins him.

Date: 1949
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032619